Balloons! Next year marks the sesquicentennial of the Morrill Land Grant College Act, the federal legislation that led to the establishment of so many of America's state colleges and universities. Getting a jump on the commemorations, your Gleaner's latest column in CityLife briefly reviews ho...

Balloons! Next year marks the sesquicentennial of the Morrill Land Grant College Act, the federal legislation that led to the establishment of so many of America's state colleges and universities. Getting a jump on the commemorations, your Gleaner's latest column in CityLife briefly reviews ho...

In a spirited and condescending veto PDF, Jones Vargas government affairs spokesman Brian Sandoval said an education spending bill "represents a circuitous attempt to secure a tax increase." No. The bill sought to set education spending levels. The tax increases are detailed in other bills tha...

To recap: Brian Sandoval doesn't really care what happens to Nevada's economy -- or at least he thinks state budget policy doesn't really have anything to do with it. And the governor of Reno sure as hell doesn't care what happens to Southern Nevada. Even if he sincerely believes (doubtful) Ne...

Donald Trump is very proud of the crucial role he played in forcing Obama to finally kill Boogeyman King Osama bin Laden. Of course Trump only wishes that Obama would have killed the terrorist mastermind earlier, etc., etc... But more to the point ... psychologically transformed by This Import...

Sigh, as this is being written, your American media has already moved beyond T-Rump's Las Vegas fuckapalooza to focus on how he lied about dodging the draft. Really, seemingly every day, and sometimes more than once a day, the press digs up yet another example of the shitfaucet's hypocrisy, ly...

Contrary to popular belief within Democratic circles, it would be better if founding fruitcake Sharron Angle just went away. Yes, yes, however the process shakes out to replace putative senator Dean Heller in CD2, the larger Angle's role, the better the chance for some Republican-lite Nevada-s...

Countless times in recent years mining industry lobbyists have solemnly announced the industry's thoughtful support for a broad-based business tax. Skeptics have doubted the industry's sincerity, prompting lobbyists to assure everyone that their support for a business tax stems from genuine co...

Your governor's sophisticated no-new-taxes policy has curiously failed to fix Nevada's economy. Maybe his innovative higher education policy -- divestiture! -- will prove more effective? And whether it does or not, the private sector is hurting, so inflicting pain on the public sector workforc...

That's a question Bill Moyers has been asking lately, and I was reminded of it while reading this Joseph Stiglitz essay on wealth inequality: The more divided a society becomes in terms of wealth, the more reluctant the wealthy become to spend money on common needs. The rich don’t need to rely ...

What do you call it when a company produces hundreds of millions of dollars of gold and pays no mining taxes at all? If you're Gov. Brian Sandoval, you call it paying "their fair share." In his televised interview with Jon Ralston, Sandoval was asked about some of the specific failures (docume...

Pictured below is the San Onofre nuclear power station about midway between Los Angeles and San Diego. It's mostly owned by Southern California Edison, and company officials assure everyone that the plant is designed to survive a 7.0 earthquake. That stuff on the left is the Pacific Ocean. ...

@Scorpiogal...this is a national problem and not solely Nevada's. I've heard teachers and educators saying the same thing for the past 50 years. I was in school before TV but had radio and was not allowed to listen until homework was done and checked by a parent. Teachers are not baby sitters.

I still say if Ensign ran he's win because of the many Dan like creatured living in Nevada who would vote for him.
Puhleeze, do we have to put up with Batshit Angle again? How does this crap rise to the surface in Nevada politics?

So Sen. John Ensign, R-Clairol, has discovered that he is such a disgusting, horrible excuse for a human being that even corporate America wants nothing to do with him. Corporate lobbyists and campaign contribution bundlers, perhaps the only people who can rival Ensign when it comes to exuding ...

"The time has come for us to outlaw prostitution," Harry Reid says. Great. The lobbying industry is one of the few in Nevada that's thriving, and Reid wants the nanny state to kill it. Just like a Democrat. UPDATE: On second thought, the suggestion that lobbyists and prostitutes are one and th...

Brian Sandoval's decisions necessarily must be guided by "WWTD?," the T in this instance being teabaggers. If that lot suspects the gormless purity of his wingnut credentials, it's hard to see how Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle or Michelle Bachman will pick him as her running mate in 2012. At the...

Remember Harry Reid? He was briefly famous a while back for running a bunch of ads against some crazy woman, on the TV. Anyway, now he's working feverishly on behalf of average Americans. Specifically, Reid is trying to make sure that the rich don't have to pay higher taxes so long as they agr...

But ... but ... what else could Obama and the Democrats do? They simply had to surrender in humiliation to the Republicans on tax cuts for rich people, because otherwise the Republicans would have allowed the tax cuts to expire for everyone and then successfully stick the blame on Democrats. B...

The vast majority of Nevadans live in a harsh world of vanishing incomes, meager or nonexistent benefits and the realization that the relatively prosperous retirement enjoyed by today's crop of geezers will be available to fewer and fewer people in the future, which totally sucks. John Ensi...

Americans cannot rise as one in 2012 to crown and acclaim their new Savior and President for Life until puny earthling pretenders are cast into the abyss. So thanks to the state's early presidential caucus, wretched and forlorn Nevada can look forward to basking in the glory of repeat visits f...

Are you so rich and privileged that you retain entire families of courtiers and, knowing that the courtly lifestyle to which they have become accustomed is entirely dependent on you, you exploit your advantage and have sex with the wives as if people are but playthings, because really you beli...

Are you so rich and privileged that you retain entire families of courtiers and, knowing that the courtly lifestyle to which they have become accustomed is entirely dependent on you, you exploit your advantage and have sex with the wives as if people are but playthings, because really you beli...

Doug, after 52 years of suggesting alternatoves I'm done. No one listens. We don't have a Democratic party, we have the right leaning Democrats and the ultra-right wing Republicans. That's the choice and I will no longer support either. Russ said it best, let them have the dying carcas of what used to be a Democratic Republic.

A vast majority of Americans made it perfectly clear in the recent election that the one issue they care about more than all others in these troubling times is the importance of keeping taxes low on our nation's richest people. Well, Democrats might not control both Houses of Congress for much...